School is IN!

 Today is the first day of school, but there's no school. There's no bus, no lunch packed, no giant bag of school supplies that will be redistributed and never seen again, no "Welcome to Mr./Ms. _____'s Class!" emails, no one-word answers about how the first day of school was ("Fine," anyone?), no folder full of forms for me to sign, no wondering what's going on, no government school telling me what lessons to teach (looking at you, GaVS, of the School-at-Home Year of Covid), and no other kids.

It's just him and me, in our apartment, with the curriculum I chose. Me, as superintendent, principal, teacher, Mom, and full-time work-from-home employee. Teaching between scheduling surgeries and answering phone calls and emails, planning lessons during my lunch break. There's no Dad coming home later to take the pressure off, no siblings around to entertain each other, just me having a very well-concealed meltdown under the surface yesterday wondering how I was going to make it all work.

You know what? It's working, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

It's 1:42pm and we're in our last class of the day (Spanish! We get the freedom to learn Spanish!), and no tears have been shed. He has diligently completed his work, didn't complain during this morning's Learning Language Arts Through Literature dictation exercise, and has been caught reading (for fun!!!!) no fewer than three times today.

I've wanted to do this for years. YEARS. I've had a bone to pick with the public school system since kindergarten, and I've always said I wanted to but couldn't because I didn't have time or patience or resources and I was always working at the hospital. Well, I'm doing it.

I call this blog "We Are All Students" after what Jesus says to the Pharisees in Matthew 23:8:

    "But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher and you are all students."

My student is not the only student here, and we BOTH have one teacher. One of my goals through homeschooling is to learn as he learns, through the grace of Jesus. I have already learned what I am capable of when I put things in His hands, and I fully believe that without Him I would not be doing this. And it's only the beginning.

Come learn with us!